Pharmaceutical Market and Healthcare Services in Poland and Eastern Europe

InterHealth Canada plans more projects in Poland

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

InterHealth Canada, the global healthcare management firm, has signalled a long-term commitment to investing in Poland’s healthcare sector. Speaking at a conference on Canadian expertise ...

Farmacol to diversify into spa medicine?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Farmacol, the listed drug distributor, has expressed a formal interest to buy Tatry Polskie, a state-owned tourism and hotel group with assets in Tatry mountains in southern Poland, ...

Tougher solutions to prevent pharma companies from influencing Slovak doctors

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

In line with the new legal solutions, by 31 January each year, marketing authorisation holders (MAHs) providing human prescription medicines in Slovakia will be obliged to file ...

Bioton seals JV with Actavis

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Bioton on 30 January signed a long-heralded joint-venture agreement with Actavis about the development and commercialisation of recombinant human insulin and short- and long-acting insulin ...

Amendment to Reimbursement Act ready to become law on 9 February

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The amendment to the Reimbursement Act enacted by the Sejm on 13 January was published in the Journal of Laws on 25 January. It has a vacatio legis of 14 days, which means that the new regulations ...

Neuro-Code gets VC backing for innovative ADHD treatment

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Neuro-Code, a Krakow-based R&D firm specialised in neuro- and bioinformatics solutions for healthcare and computer gaming, is entering the commercialisation stage with an innovative telekinetic ...

Romanian health minister announces work on new draft healthcare law

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Ritli Ladislau, the Romanian health minister, has announced that work on a new healthcare law proposal will start in the near future. Mr Ritli stated that reform is needed in Romanian ...

President signs off on amendment to Reimbursement Act

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

President Bronislaw Komorowski on 23 January 2012 signed into law an amendment to the Reimbursement Act passed by the Sejm on 13 January and approved by the Senate six days later. The ...

Farmacol sets up hospital supply subsidiary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

A court in Katowice on 20 January 2012 authorised the establishment of Farmacol DS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the listed drug distributor. In a statement to the stock exchange, ...

Biogened forecasts 43% sales growth in 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Biogened, a NewConnect-listed maker of Rx and OTC drugs, dietary supplements and dermocosmetics, expects to generate sales revenues of PLN 35.4m (€8.2m) this year, the company ...

Enel-Med receives MRI contract from large Warsaw hospital

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Enel-Med has strengthened its diagnostics business by winning a two-year contract for the provision of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services for the Wolski Hospital in Warsaw. ...

Biomed Lublin announces maiden delivery of plasma to LFB of France

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Biomed Lublin on 16 January announced that it has completed the first delivery of blood plasma to France’s Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies ...

Bulgaria to legalise online sale of OTC drugs

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Bulgarian authorities are about to amend Decree 28, which pertains to the organisation of the activities of pharmacies, in order to legalise the online sale of OTC drugs for pharmacies ...

BioMaxima expects 46% increase in sales for 2011

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Sales revenues at BioMaxima, the listed supplier of in vitro diagnostics equipment and reagents, exceeded PLN 10.5m (€2.4m) in 2011, an increase of 46.13% compared with 2010, ...

Sejm passes changes to Reimbursement Act

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Sejm on 13 January 2012 approved an amendment to the Reimbursement Act that abolishes paragraph eight of Article 48 of the new Reimbursement Act, which made doctors liable to return ...